Elmar Teufl ; Stephan Wagner
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Spanning trees of finite Sierpiński graphs
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2006,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AG, Fourth Colloquium on Mathematics and Computer Science Algorithms, Trees, Combinatorics and Probabilities
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3494
Spanning trees of finite Sierpiński graphs
Authors: Elmar Teufl 1; Stephan Wagner 2
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Elmar Teufl;Stephan Wagner
1 Fakultät für Mathematik = Faculty of Mathematics [Bielefeld]
2 Institut für Mathematik [Graz]
We show that the number of spanning trees in the finite Sierpiński graph of level $n$ is given by $\sqrt[4]{\frac{3}{20}} (\frac{5}{3})^{-n/2} (\sqrt[4]{540})^{3^n}$. The proof proceeds in two steps: First, we show that the number of spanning trees and two further quantities satisfy a $3$-dimensional polynomial recursion using the self-similar structure. Secondly, it turns out, that the dynamical behavior of the recursion is given by a $2$-dimensional polynomial map, whose iterates can be computed explicitly.
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Teufl, Elmar; Wagner, Stephan, 2011, The Number Of Spanning Trees In Self-Similar Graphs, Annals Of Combinatorics, 15, 2, pp. 355-380, 10.1007/s00026-011-0100-y.